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Welcome to the U.S. Mission website.
It is my goal to communicate the priorities and principles of the United States foreign policy at the UN.
Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad


News Summaries
UN Appeals to Taliban to Allow Afghan Food Aid (10/06)
UN mission in Georgia thrown into uncertainty by recent conflict – Ban (10/06)
Somalia: Pirates to Face Heavy Military Reprisals (10/05)
'World will not stop Iran going nuclear' (10/05)
U.S. Presidential Elections: Understanding the 2008 Race (04/10)


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In our view, the Almaty Program of Action is an important and necessary initiative for realizing the full potential of landlocked developing countries and achieving and sustaining the Millennium Development Goals.

- 10/03/2008 Ambassador T. Vance McMahan

...we circulated a very short, succinct draft resolution reaffirming our previous decisions and calling on Iran to abide by its previous obligations under previous Security Council resolutions and IAEA Board of Governs decisions.

- 09/26/2008 Ambassador Alejandro Wolff

...it is certainly the obligation of the international community to speak loudly and firmly against terrorism in all its forms, extremism in all its forms.

- 09/26/2008 Condoleezza Rice

...the armed struggle within Chad continues. We strongly encourage all parties to work diligently toward full implementation of the Dakar agreement and all existing peace agreements.

- 09/24/2008 Rosemary DiCarlo

I wanted to set the record straight by -- and therefore will say the following: one, that I have many contacts and friends around the world. I've been in the business for a long time. And these contacts and friendships, many of them, precede my assignment and my role in the U.S. government. And just because I am a government official now doesn't mean that I should end those friendships and relationships that I've had with many people, particularly from the region of the broader Middle East, including Afghanistan and Pakistan.

- 09/03/2008 Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad